Felipe Bianchi

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Felipe Bianchi
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Born
Felipe Eugenio Bianchi Leiton

(1965-03-27) 27 March 1965 (age 61)
Alma mater
OccupationJournalist
Years active2000–present
Known forWork at
Spouses
  • Consuelo Saavedra (div.)
  • María Teresa Undurraga
ChildrenTwo

Felipe Eugenio Bianchi Leiton (born 27 March 1965) is a Chilean journalist.

In 2006, he received the National Sports Journalism Award.[1]

Biography

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In his childhood, Bianchi attended the San Juan Evangelista School. He then began studying journalism at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC).

During his university years, Bianchi was a classmate of the football leader, Harold Mayne-Nicholls, with whom he maintains a long friendship.[2]

He was married to journalist Consuelo Saavedra.[3] Then he met to businesswoman María Teresa Undurraga, with whom has three children.

Television career

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In the 90s, Bianchi began working at Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN). However, he rose to fame as a panelist on the Mega program Caiga Quien Caiga, during its first three seasons (2002–2004). In 2005 he moved to Chilevisión where he replaced Aldo Schiappacasse.

During his time at Chilevisión (2005–2016), he was in charge of the sports segments for the main edition of Chilevisión Noticias.

Similarly, from 2011 to 2014 –years of the FIFA World Cup qualification–, Bianchi was a color commentator on the Chile national football team's matches alongside play-by-play commentator, Paulo Flores.

From 2016 to 2020, Bianchi worked for Mega, where again was commentator of the Chilean football matches, now for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification,[4] where his country failed to qualify.

References

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